Myrna is finished and has buttons. I used the skein buttons I ordered from Knitpicks. I really like how the cardy looks on, though there is a bit of a gap with the buttons-yay large breasts, I may have to tighten up the button hole a little bit. Unless someone out there has a suggestion?
It is very hard to take pictures of oneself. I used the timer setting, but our place has terrible lighting (and it was early evening) I should go outside in the daytime and have someone take pictures of me-but I'm not patient and if I didn't do it now, I'd probably never do it. So, here, have some lousy pictures. I feel like I should put a warning on the blog somewhere "here be crappy pictures", instead of constantly apologizing for the crappy picture. Anyway pics:
Yesterday I knit up some slippers, leethal mary janes. It's another great free pattern that I found on Ravelry. I wanted to do some stash busting and I've had a couple of balls of Swish Bulky, lying around. I love Swish, it's a superwash Merino, vry vry soft next to the skin and comes in lovely colours and made by knitpicks. I have made these slippers before but the first time I made them, I didn't trust the sizing so I added a few more rows. I didn't do that this time and was pretty dismayed after finishing the first one to find that it didn't fit. *sad face* I made the second one anyway, figuring I'd offer them up on facebook. Minutes after posting the picture of free slippers, P (who's in town for B's b-day-5 today!!) poked her head in the den and asked if she could have the slippers.
To make these slippers, I used 3 strands of bulky yarn, one black, one called Aegean (a blue-ish green) and the other called Planetarium (which is one of my favourite knitpick colour and is a lovely dark blue). They knit up on US11's so they go fast! I'm so so sad they don't fit! They came out so nice. Lucky P.
Next up: I'm going to choose between two shrugs, one a short sleeve (sport weight, I have some Knitpicks Galileo that I bought last year because it was so pretty but never used), one a long sleeve knit with bulky yarn (that I can use leftover berroco vintage bulky I've had for a couple of years)...and then maybe make another pair of slippers-making sure to knit a few extra rows this time.
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